Databases NOT indexed in the Discovery Service

The BIMCO Bulletin is a specialised magazine featuring articles of lasting value. Articles on developments affecting international shipping, including reports from IMO and other regulatory authorities keep readers abreast of new conventions and legislation.
Distance Learning students: Note that BIMCO accounts are provided to students physically attending courses at WMU only.

Statistical data of shipping markets. Users can query time series data and download data sets. Several summary reports of sector analyses are issued weekly and monthly. USE OF THIS DATABASE IS FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES ONLY. COMMERCIAL USE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED

Availablity of content in Discovery Service: None Access requires that you be on campus or authenticated through the proxy server. You will also need user name and password posted above. This is a shared account, so please do not change any account information, such as email address and definitely do not change the password.

An excellent source of full-text information focusing primarily on maritime law. The publisher, Informa Law, offers a major portion of the Lloyd's publications available online, including journals, reports and a few books. It does not, however, include the Lloyd's List daily, which the library obtains under separate subscription (see the E-Journals list to access; found under Collections - Not in Discovery Service). Full-text available for the Maritime & Commercial "practice." You will be prompted to enter your WMU Gmail address. Some of the ebooks are indexed in the Discovery Service. The WMU licence allows 5 simultaneous users at a time.

Search and download documents of the International Maritime Organization. Login required. Contact WMU library for an account (WMU faculty, staff and students only). Click here to sign up. Distance Learning students: Note that IMO accounts are provided to students physically attending courses at WMU only. You may sign up for a Public Account on webaccounts.imo.org instead.

KR-CON, developed by Korean Register of Shipping, is a comprehensive
IMO Convention Database containing IMO Conventions, Codes,
Resolutions and Circulars.
The access to WMU is generously provided by the Korean Register of Shipping. WMU students and staff have to log in using their personal credentials that are issued on a yearly basis.

The oldest continuously published news source in the maritime world. This database offers the Lloyd's list online version as well as PDF of the print version. Archive of full texts start in 2007. You can receive set up email and RSS alerts in your sector of interest. Anyone employed by WMU is eligible for account, most of the students as well (apart from the distance learning students).

Availablity of content in Discovery Service: None. You will need to log on your first time from on campus or the Henrik Smith Residence in order to set up your account. Go to http://www.lloydslist.com/login. You will see two grey boxes. The one on the right recognizes you as being on campus and therefore eligible for a "corporate" account. Click the sign-up link in the right box. Fill out all the required data. Use your WMU email address. We recommend using it as your email address and as your username (which will help us if we need to troubleshoot your account). Assign a password of your own choosing. Once you have created an account, you may log in from anywhere with an internet connection. Your account will be terminated when you no longer a student or employee of WMU.

WMU's institutional repository of digital content. Includes PDFs of WMU student dissertations, papers and presentations of WMU faculty and researchers, and E-content purchased from third parties such as the Drewry Manning Report, IHS Casualty Statistics, and articles from ScienceDirect. Some content restricted to WMU members, but most is "open access."

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development e-library of books, papers, glossaries and statistics on transport. You can search all of the OECD iLibrary. All books in the Transport category are available in full-text.

Online bibliographic management program with an improved user experience, full-text management and collaboration features. The new RefWorks enables a more efficient and reliable process for producing research papers.
Off-site users: please instead follow this link

The premier online language learning course. Students wanting to improve their conversational English can do so on their own time, at their own pace, on their own computers. Staff who want to learn Swedish, or faculty who want to learn a little Mandarin or Arabic in preparation for their duty travels, will have the same opportunity. Over 20 of the more than 30 Rosetta Stone languages are available in the WMU license. Click here to sign up. Rosetta Stone supports apps for Android and Apple mobile devices.
Distance Learning students: Note that Rosetta Stone accounts are provided to students physically attending courses at WMU only.

Presents the total number of containers handled by a port, per country, expressed in Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs). This may include loading, unloading, repositioning and transshipment containers as well as Forty-foot Equivalent Units (FEUs) being counted as two TEUs.

Presents the liner shipping connectivity index (LSCI), which indicates a country's integration level into global liner shipping networks. The index base year is 2004, and the base value is on a country showing a maximum figure for 2004.

New platform that powers Thomson Reuters products; Westlaw Classic, Westlaw International, Westlaw Watch, and Reuters with Newsroom. The upgraded Westlaw platform includes intuitive navigation, as well as new content, custom pages, tools and functionality.

1) Once there, hover your mouse over Log in to your Service; and Select Academic: OpenAthens Federation.
2) Search for World Maritime University in the Find your Organisation search field and select it from the list.
3) Enter your WMU GMail credentials on the log in page.
4) Upon logging in for the first time, you will be prompted to enter your name and email address (optional) as part of the personalisation process.
5) Once you have done this, you will be logged into Westlaw UK.